Tonight two boys from Pat’s choir join us for dinner.\u00a0 Both of them are university students.\u00a0\u00a0 To my surprise I got a very intellectual conversation from one of the guy.\u00a0 Rarely I can find anyone who know enough theology, religion or philosophy knowledge to engage in a deep conversation.\u00a0 He is a psychology major, so his point of view is quite different from my engineers point of view.\u00a0 Our chat shed me new lights on how to see many things.<\/p>\n
I finally have a clear understanding of the difference between innocent and ignorance.\u00a0 Many people use these two words interchangeably, but they have different meaning.\u00a0 Using book as an analogy.\u00a0 Being innocent means you don’t know there exists such a book.\u00a0 Being ignorance is you know the title of a book, but knows nothing about the content.<\/p>\n
I learn the minimum requirement for Catholic mass is 2 people, the priest plus an audience.\u00a0 The priest by myself cannot have a mass in law’s definition.\u00a0 Then I pose the question what about a priest with a split personality, does it count as one person or 2 people.<\/p>\n
We talked about what-if scenario, what if African conquer Europe in early centuries.\u00a0 This leads to whether history has determine course of action or history is accidental.\u00a0 I am defending our life will be pretty much the same using Hegel and he disagree.\u00a0 Well, the fact that he knows the name of Hegel is quite impressive.<\/p>\n
In addition, he explain some psychology to me.\u00a0 One school of thoughts in psychology thinks how the human mind works are just reinforcements.\u00a0 However main stream psychology reject this idea because the mind clearly able to change states, say from happy to sad, without any sensory inputs.\u00a0 I try to defend the reinforcement theory using analogy from CPU design.\u00a0 In semiconductor, alpha particulars can toggle the state of the electrons which causing bit error in the memory.\u00a0 How about alpha particulars is the reason for human mind changing states without any reason.\u00a0 The alpha particular excite an electron in a neuron, which cause a chain reaction eventually turn you from happy to sad.<\/p>\n
I really enjoy tonight’s conversation.\u00a0 However, Pat and the other boy said this involve too much thinking, and they got a headache just from listening to our talks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tonight two boys from Pat’s choir join us for dinner.\u00a0 Both of them are university students.\u00a0\u00a0 To my surprise I got a very intellectual conversation from one of the guy.\u00a0 Rarely I can find anyone who know enough theology, religion or philosophy knowledge to engage in a deep conversation.\u00a0 He is a psychology major, so … Continue reading Intellectual conversation<\/span>